Impact of the environmental low-level wind profile on ensemble forecasts of the 4 may 2007 Greensburg, Kansas, tornadic storm and associated mesocyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 696-716

  Dawson, Daniel T ^a   Wicker, Louis J ^a   Mansell, Edward R ^a   Tanamachi, Robin L ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Kalman filters; Mesocyclones; Probability forecasts models distribution; Supercells; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE BASE; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; BULK ICE; COLLABORATIVE MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; LEADTIME; LOW LEVEL JET; LOW-LEVEL WINDS; MESOCYCLONES; MESOSCALE; MICROPHYSICS; MULTISCALES; NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORIES; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OKLAHOMA; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC MEASURES; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTION; RADAR DATA; SUPER CELL; VELOCITY-AZIMUTH DISPLAY; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER; WIND PROFILES;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOES;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CYCLONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; STORM TRACK; SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND PROFILE;

GREENSBURG; KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857090702     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00008.1     Document Type: Article

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